Just curious what would you think of this text?

[Finallyhappyat58]

So out with family all day Saturday. All adults and a fair bit of alcohol consumed. I was sober. We have a family messenger group to send stuff and photos between us . Saturday night on the family chat I noticed a message from my husband at 12 oclock at night to the family chat .
"I'm a little busy right now. Call me later, thanks.
To me it looks like its been sent in error .to the family group.
But when I questioned him in a this is an odd text to send at 12 oclock at night.
He said he didn't remember sending it and it was the way I looked at him as in not trusting him .
He said Im more than ok asking him but the trusting thing is the deal breaker . So hes just gone out
Im sat here fuming .

I does sound like one of those stock texts your phone offers when you decline a call. Maybe it's right that he doesn't remember sending it because he didn't.

However, his reaction does suggest guilt rather than upset at the lack of trust, to me.

The text isn’t the problem, his reaction is, it has guilty written all over it!!

If that happened to me or my DH it would be “don’t know, must be a pre text thing don’t remember sending it” checking my phone, seeing I did send it and saying “don’t know how that happened then” and that would be the end of it, the fact he got on the defensive and said about your face look is weird, why is he jumping to the conclusion your face says that? Why is he storming off out? His reaction is not right and he also has form for cheating so it’s not like it’s beyond the imagination.

Dear OP I cannot say for sure, just like you cannot, what this is, but I know exactly how you feel about his response. My exh used to be like this, he would never give me a proper response to anything like that. He would mostly joke about it or get defensive but would never just straight answer it. For example, if I ask why are you so late, he would laugh and say: "I was with my girlfriend" and walk away or he would say something like:"Why, are you jealous?" or "Do you not trust me?", but would never answer in a normal way that would reassure me. We are now divorced and while I never found him to be cheating or anything like that, I honestly never trusted him 100%.